World’s Largest Teapot
One summer morning, we bought the last three “World’s Largest Teapot” postcards from Chaney’s Bait, the gas station/mini-mart across the street (in the meantime, we
Love Enacts A Kind Of Vigilant Perception
“Love has something to do with the notion of being seen — the opposite of invisibility. The invisible, the unwitnessed, the unacknowledged, the isolated, the
Death Race: The 1976 Arcade Game That Started a Moral Panic
Long before Mortal Kombat, Doom, or Grand Theft Auto became lightning rods in debates over video game violence, there was Death Race. Released by the
Being is Temporary
“Being is temporary, even if it appears to be continuous: it’s continuous in the sense that, once it’s over, another being immediately follows. It would
Rebuilding a Cray Supercomputer
There was a time when the word “supercomputer” inspired the same sort of giddy awe that infuses Superman or the Superconducting Super Collider. A supercomputer
Recreating 1960s Hollywood Boulevard 50 Years Later
Crossing the street took months for the crew that turned back the clock 50 years on Hollywood Boulevard for Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time